Jessie Laver Evans Australia, 1860-1943
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About Jessie Evans
Jessie Laver Evans was born in Albury, New South Wales in 1860. She attended the National Gallery Art School in the 1880s and that year she exhibited at the Intercolonial Industrial Exhibition in Melbourne. She also studied under under Fred McCubbin and George Folingsby in 1903-1904. being awarded 2nd Prize for still-life in 1888 and 2nd Prize for Best Drawing from Antique in 1890. Between 1894 and 1898, she also studied at the Melbourne School of Art under E. Phillips Fox and Tudor St George Tucker, and was awarded prizes for landscapes in 1894 and 1897 . She predominantly painted landscapes and seascapes in oil, around the Melbourne area. He career as a professional artist was stymied by her father who believed it was not ladylike to have her paintings hanging in the National Gallery, or to sell paintings. Jesse Evans died in Brighton Victoria on 12 May 1943.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Jessie Evans from 1994 and in total 16 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 14 (88%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $4,800 for Ricketts Point, Near Sandringham sold by Leonard Joel in June 2012. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2019.
Jessie Evans is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
No, ineligible. The artist has been deceased for more than 70 years.
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